James' Favorites

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

Albert Einstein

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Jack London

The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

Wayne Dyer

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your Soul...

Napoleon Hill

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau

If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Abraham H. Maslow

It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier.

Thomas Robert Gaines

It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to.

Walter Linn

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Danny Kaye

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

George Bernard Shaw

Much may be known of a man's character by what excites his laughter.

Goethe

Nothing happens unless first a dream.

Carl Sandburg

Of all earthly music that which reaches farthest into heaven is the beating of a truly loving heart.

Henry Ward Beecher

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, "This is the real me," and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

William James

Some people say they haven't yet found themselves. But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates.

Thomas Szasz

The only way to know the future is to invent it yourself.

Barbara Roberts

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

William A. Ward

There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Albert Einstein

There's no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

Wayne Dyer

Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods.

Japanese Proverb

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

Japanese Proverb

What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know EXACTLY what you want...and are fully determined not to quit until you get it.

Alexander Graham Bell

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.

Buddhist Proverb

If your world doesn’t allow you to dream, move to one where you can.

Billy Joel